Well, this only adds to the appeal of The Hobbit, that it rightly got its approval from a child rather than an adult. The story goes that it was Rayner Unwin’s review that convinced his father to publish the story – the younger Unwin said of the matter: “Not a very good piece of literary criticism…but in those happy days, no second opinion was needed if I said it was good enough to publish, it was published.” At last they get to the lonely mountain Smaug, the dragon who guards it is killed and after a terrific battle with the goblins he returned home - rich! This book, with the help of maps, does not need any illustrations it is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9.” He had a very exiting (sic) time fighting goblins and wargs. “ Bilbo Baggins was a Hobbit who lived in his Hobbit hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the wizard and his Dwarves persuaded him to go. The first and original book review of The Hobbit was candidly supplied in 1936 by the ten-year old son of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin:
